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...This is almost good. Like many recent hits, the words are simple. The chorus consists of a series of "Da da da da da da" etc., sung energetically and quite convincingly. The verses, made up solely of assorted names, are less exciting, but the whole effect is favorable. "Shades" Felson's sax is properly guttural, and is reminiscent of a quacking duck. Delightful...
...Hemingway had the passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson. The poolroom was Eddie's world in whatever town he happened to be, and such moments of truth as he experienced boiled up behind the eight ball. He was a pool shark, although he hated to be called that; he thought of himself as a pool hustler, a town-to-town drifter who conned strangers into games, looked bad or only fair at first, then turned on his skill when the stakes were high enough to matter. Eddie had the skill...
Charles Edward Balch Felson '18, of Pittsfield, N. H., was killed on September 9 when the automobile which he was driving collided with another one near Portsmouth. N. H. Folsom's machine, which was running at high speed around a sharp curve, turned over twice, killing him instantly, but C. W. W. P. Heffenger '18, who was in the car with him, escaped uninjured. The accident occurred in the early morning...